Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has revealed
that the landlord of the property where the Nigerian Embassy in Hungary is
located, is threatening to evict them.
Onyeama made this disclosure while defending the ministry’s
2021 budget at the House of Representatives in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Minister also claimed the ministry needs N1.6billion to
move ambassadors and pay officers N3.7billion.
“Just on Monday, the ambassador in Hungary called to say
they are going to throw them out from the chancery building. That the landlord
is coming and that they do not have the money to pay,” NAN quoted him to have
said.
“And we get that from a lot of missions across the world and
that is not a sustainable way of running foreign service.
“Then this exchange rate differential with the CBN is really
something we need to address once and for all.
“It is not so easy,
all of these things are computed in naira and all the payments abroad are in
dollars and once the exchange rate is changed, it never goes the other way, it
always goes up, it never comes down vis-a-vis the dollar. This means immediate
shortfall for all our missions.”
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Nigeria is broke as the State-Aided Robbery Squad have completely emptied the treasury. Geoffrey how much did you get as your share of the loot? Or were you just an honest errand boy. The Hungarian embassy should kick corrupt tenants out it's only fair.
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